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Re: [PATCH] localedata: i18napis: update LC_ADDRESS.country_post
- From: keld at keldix dot com
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:00:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] localedata: i18napis: update LC_ADDRESS.country_post
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:12:48AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/11/2016 04:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> >i have no problem dropping postal_fmt & country_post from all locales and
> >telling people to use libaddressinput. after all, it's not like glibc has
> >functions to format postal_fmt in the first place -- it's left up to the
> >app to do the printf logic itself, and iirc, last time i searched, there
> >was no one doing that.
>
> GNOME uses it to determine the street/dwelling number ordering for
> formatting results from an Openstreetmap-related location service.
>
> I posit that this is incorrect because it should use the locale of the
> location, and not the locale of the user. A German address needs to be
> formatted according to German conventions, even if the user is using an
> English locale.
Indeed the address should be formatted according to German rules,
even for an English user.
But that then needs to be programmed accordingly. Both for
the locale solution and the libaddressinput solution.
Better then use the solution we use now, where we have code that somewhat works
and coul be modified to work correctly.
Best regards
Keld